Re: IDE array question
- From: "EDM" <EDM_nospam@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:31:16 GMT
"The Seabat" <seabat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:n5dmb2tbn362lob0d111lrto75oqt34bde@xxxxxxxxxx
This has probably been debated forever, but maybe some one can give me
a difinitive answer. Ha!
I have two 40GB hard drives, one DVD burner and one CD/RW burner. What
is the best way to arrainge these puppies on the two IDE channels for
optimum performance? I don't plan on ever doing any disc-to-disc
copying, so that is not a concern. Right now I have the boot drive and
the DVD burner on the Primary channel and the other hard drive and the
CD/RW burner on the Secondary channel. Both the CD and DVD drives are
set as slaves and the hard drives set as masters.
Someone said that it is better to have both hard drives on the Primary
and the two burners on the Secondary. Is this better than the way I
have it?
No.
Running Windows 98, Athlon XP 1800+, 256MB RAM
Thank you.
It's better to divide drives of a given type across multiple
channels. Your existing configuration is optimal, except you
should swap your DVD and CDRW, i.e. put your DVD
burner as slave on the secondary channel instead of the
primary. A DVD burner has to move a lot more data than a
CDRW drive, and will be far more easily starved if you're
doing lots of multitasking while burning discs.
.
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